m into water just before putting them into preparations, to
prevent spotting. Soft water should be used, _sufficient to cover the
goods well; this is always understood where quantity is not
mentioned_. When goods are dyed, air them; then rinse well, and hang
up to dry. Do not wring silk or merino dresses when scouring or dyeing
them. If cotton goods are to be dyed a light color, they should first
be bleached.

SILKS.

_Black:_--Make a weak lye as for black or woolens; work goods in
bichromate of potash a little below boiling heat, then dip in the
log-wood in the same way; if colored in blue vitriol dye, use about
the same heat.

_Orange:_--For one pound goods, annotto one pound, soda one pound;
repeat as desired.

_Green--Very Handsome:_--For one pound goods, yellow oak bark eight
ounces; boil one-half hour; turn off the liquor from bark and add alum
six ounces; let it stand until cold; while making this, color goods
in blue dye-tub a light blue, dry and wash, dip in alum and bark dye.
If it does not take well, warm the dye a little.

_Purple:_--For one pound goods. First obtain a light blue, by dipping
in home-made dye-tub; then dry; dip in alum four ounces, with water to
cover, when little warm. If color is not full enough add chemic.

_Yellow:_--For one pound goods, alum three ounces, sugar of lead
three-fourths ounce; immerse goods in solution over night; take out,
drain, and make a new lye with fustic one pound; dip until the
required color is obtained.

_Crimson:_--For one pound goods, alum three ounces; dip at hand heat
one hour; take out and drain while making new dye by boiling ten
minutes, cochineal three ounces, bruised nutgalls two ounces and cream
of tartar one-fourth ounce, in one pail of water; when little cool,
begin to dip, raising heat to boil; dip one hour; wash and dry.

_Sky Blue on Silk or Cotton--Very Beautiful:_--Give goods as much
color from a solution of blue vitriol two ounces, to water one gallon,
as it will take up in dipping fifteen minutes; then run it through
lime water. This will make a beautiful and durable sky blue.

_Brown on Silk or Cotton--Very Beautiful:_--After obtaining a blue
color as above, run goods through a solution of prussiate of potash
one ounce, to water one gallon.

_Light Blue:_--For cold water one gallon, dissolve alum one-half
tablespoonful, in hot water one teacupful, and add to it; then add
chemic, one teaspoonful at a time to obtain the desired colo